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expection en · NOUN

Etymology

From expect + -ion.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, archaic, countable, rare, uncountable) Alternative form of expectation.
   alt of expectation
   • A great Number of Types, Prefigurations and Prophecies […] all of them so pointing one way, as to beget in the whole Nation of the Jews, an Expection of the coming of a Messiah; […] a. 1741, Edward Synge, Religion Tryed by the Test of Sober and Impartial Reason, 3rd edition, published 1761, page 58:
   • Such curtesies are reall, which flow cheerefully / Without an expection of requitall. 1633, John Ford, The Broken Heart […], folios 70ᵛ–71ʳ:
   • It is ridiculous […] to expect a duty to be performed for a fee established nearly four hundred years ago! The unreasonableness of such an expection justifies, in a certain degree, the discretional claims of the officer; […] 1808, Richard Phillips, A Letter to the Livery of London, Relative to the Views of the Writer in Executing the Office of Sheriff, 2nd edition, page 186:
2. (alt-of, countable, misspelling, uncountable) Misspelling of exception.
   alt of exception

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